US Navy discharges human waste into the world’s most pristine waters

The U.S. military is subject to both domestic and international environmental laws, but according to a new report, the Navy has routinely violated them in an area of pristine waters in the Indian Ocean near a base owned by the British government.
According to Britain’s The Independent newspaper, the U.S. military has dumped hundreds of tons of human waste and sewage into protected coral lagoon areas surrounding the Diego Garcia military base over a span of about 30 years.
The base, located on the Chagos Islands, is one of the most remote in the world, as well as one of the most controversial; British troops forcibly removed scores of islanders from there in the early 1970s, during the peak of the Cold War. The base has been used by the U.S. military for a number of strategic air missions. Also, nuclear-armed submarines have used the base for staging.’
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